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/ A broken rainbow on the skies of May, / Touching the dripping roses and low clouds, / And in wet clouds its scattered glories lost: -- / So in the sorrow of her soul the ghost / Of one great love, of iridescent ray, / Spanning the roses dim of memory, / Against the tumult of life's rushing crowds -- / A broken rainbow on the skies of May.
/ A flashing humming-bird among the flowers, / Deep-coloured blooms; its slender tongue and bill / Sucking the syrups and the calyxed myrrhs, / Till, being full of sweets, away it whirrs: -- / Such was his love that won her heart's rich bowers / To give to him their all, their honied showers, / The bloom from which he drank his body's fill -- / A flashing humming-bird among the flowers.